Frederik Gottschalk von Haxthausen
Frederik Gottschalk von Haxthausen | |
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First Minister of Norway | |
In office 20 August 1814 – 2 March 1814 | |
Monarch | Christian VIII of Denmark |
Preceded by | Position established |
Succeeded by | Marcus Gjøe Rosenkrantz |
Minister of Finance of Norway | |
In office 2 March 1814 – 20 August 1814 | |
Preceded by | Position established |
Succeeded by | Carsten Tank |
Personal details | |
Born | 14 July 1750 Swedish campaign against Norway (1814) |
Frederik Gottschalk von Haxthausen (14 July 1750 – 6 July 1825) was a Danish-Norwegian army officer, councillor of state, cabinet member and the country's first minister of finance.
Biography
Haxthausen was born in
Akershus fortress
, a charge he held until 1814.
He spent the years 1808–1810 in Denmark as head of the war commissariate, but retained nonetheless all of his Norwegian posts. Haxthausen had a major influence on Minister of Finance in the first cabinet of independent Norway
.
During the
Swedish campaign against Norway in 1814 he served as a lieutenant general, but was wrongly accused of being a traitor, and on 19 August, 5 days after the Convention of Moss, his house and garden was attacked by a mob. Haxthausen had to flee the town and withdrew from all his positions. In 1816 an impeachment
process cleared him.
After 1814, the Akershus fortress went out of operative military use, so that Haxthausen was the last operative commander of the fortress. He died in Christiania, 6 July 1825.
In 1879, a street of Oslo in the Frogner area close to his home was named after Haxthausen.
References
- ^ "Frederik Haxthausen". Norsk biografisk leksikon. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
Sources
- Aschehougs konversasjonsleksikon, Vol. 9, Oslo (1957), H.Aschehoug & co.
- Oslo byleksikon
External links
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